In downtown Columbus, the marquee of the Ohio Theatre is touting an appearance (performance?) by David Gergen. Someone on the Obama bus is trying to start the rumor that this is a burlesque house. Actually, he was here for this.
Two round ups (here and here) from the last few week on the road. Also, on the music front Margaret Talev of McClatchy papers has this good analysis.
On a brief jump flight from Philadelphia to Scranton, McCain adviser Charlie Black and Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback came back to talk up the campaign’s conviction that the glass if half full. “Four years ago at this point, George W. Bush was down five points in Iowa,” Brownback said. “Today John McCain is down one [...]
He was hilarious. (You can see it here.) Obama just told the crowd in front of the State House in Columbus that he got a chance to catch his opponent on YouTube and also thought it was funny. He added that being able to laugh at ourselves is “part of what our politics should be [...]
My latest story on the McCain campaign at 72 hours out.
The polls are holding, not tightening, it seems. McCain appeared on Saturday Night Live in a skit that appeared to be a concession to the inevitable. And the mood of many of my esteemed colleagues appears to be sober: Whomever wins will have a near impossible job as President. True enough, I suppose. There’s a [...]
I’ve scored prime seating here on the Obama campaign plane. I’m right next to the power outlet in the rear cabin. So I thought I should take advantage of this to start a thread about one of the most basic realities of traveling with a presidential campaign: Food is everywhere. Armies may travel on their [...]
